Panoramic target



No. 613,855. Patented Nov. 8, I898.

C. DICKENSON. PANOBAMIC TARGET.

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No. 6l3,855. Patented Nov. 8, I898.

' C. DICKENSON PANORAMIC TARGET.

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PA NURAMIC TARGET.

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No. s|3,a55. Pat'entd Nov. 8, I898. c. DICKENSON.

PANORAMIC TARGET.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES DICKENSON, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

PANORAM'IC TARGET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,855, dated November 8, 1898.

Application filed August 4, 1898. Serial No. 687,744. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES DICKENSON,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at-Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Panoramic Targets; and

panoramic target; and the object is to provide a simple, instructive, and entertaining device of this character for the amusement of both old and young and one requiring a fair amount of skill in its manipulation and one that will produce both an audible and avisible result as a reward for accomplishing the desired end.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of my invention.

I have shown in the present drawings the simplest form of my invention now known to me; but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to such construction, as it is evident that many changes may be made within the skill of a good mechanic without departing from the spirit of my invention, as hereinafter set forth in the specification and in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my panoramic target as it appears ready for use. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the appearance of the target after the two outside bulls-eyes have been tripped. Fig. 3 is a similar View of the target after the center bulls-eye has been tripped. Fig. 4 is a top plan view. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a rear elevation. Fig. 7 is alongitudinal vertical section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 4.

In the present instance I have chosen for the panorama the well-known historical incident of the sinking of the United States collier lllerm'mac in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba as being of special interest at the present moment, but of course any consecutive series of disconnected scenes may be employed, and such scenes may be varied from time to time to cater to the public interest in current events.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the fixed panel 1 represents a section of the broadside of a United States battleship, 2 2 the port-holes, and 3, 4, and 5 the projecting .muzzles of the midship battery and which constitute the bulls-eyes of the target.

6 denotes the gunwale of the ship, and the fixed panel 7 above it a perspective view of the ocean, while abovethis in Fig. 1 is seen two independent vertically-movable panels 8 and 9, having depicted thereon the representations of Spanish warships in the foreground and the island of Cuba in the background, these panels 8 and 9 being operatively connected to the bulls-eyes 3 and 5, respectively, in a manner to be tripped and disappear when said bulls-eyes are forced inwardly, as will be hereinafter more fully explained. When these panels 8 and 9 disappear, as shown in Fig. 2, a single movable panel 10 is seen, which occupies the entire width of the target and which represents the entrance to the harher of Santiago de Cuba, with the United States collier llferm'mac in the channel between the two forts. This panel 10 is operatively connected with the central-bulls-eye 4, and when the latter is tripped the panel disappears, and, as shown in Fig. 3, a single fixed panel 12 is seen, representing the sunken Merrimac on the same scene. At the same time a United States flag 13 is seen waving from a flag-pole on the right, and a small boat 14, in which an officer representing Ensign Hobson, passes from the left across the scene and disappears on the right, and the sound of music is heard as denoting the success of the undertaking represented by the scene.

In the present instance I have shown only three bulls-eyes, and consequently three corresponding movable scenes; but of course this number may be increased or diminished at will.

Referring in detail to the construction, 15

denotes a suitable case or cabinet the paral' lel sides 16 16 of which form shields for the projectiles directed at the target, and 17 denotes a trough in the base 18 for retaining the spent projectiles.

19 denotes the front board, on the back of which is pivoted a series of vertical levers 20, 21, and 22, the lower ends of which carry the forwardly-projecting pins 23, to which the bulls-eye disks 3, 4, and 5 are fixed, suitable orifices being formed in said front board, as shown, for the pins 23 to extend through.

24: denote leaf-springs fixed to the upper ends of the bulls-eye levers, the tension of which is exerted to hold the bulls-eye disks a short distance from the front board, and the immediate upper ends of said levers terminate in an offset or shoulder 25, which projects into the path of a carriage 26, which has a vertical movement in the guide-flanges 27 27, fixed to the front board, the carriage 26 corresponding to the lever 21, while the carriages 28 and 29 correspond to the levers 20 and 22.

3O denotes a longitudinal strip fixed to the base-board beneath the carriages, and 31 a piece of metal fixed to said strip and in line with the port-holes 2 2 2, and it forms the limit-stop or anvil for the carriages to rest upon at the end of their downward movement. The lower face of each of the carriages forms a hammer which impacts on said anvil when the cartridge is tripped and which explodes a fulminating-cap (not shown) which is conveniently placed upon the anvil through its respective port-hole, and said cap when exploded produces a sound and a flash through the porthole to simulate the discharge of the gun above it.

32 denotes a cross-bar which connects the carriage 28 with the panel 8, and 34.- denotes a cross-bar which connects the carriage 29 with the panel 9, while the central carriage 26 is connected to the layer panel 10 by the bar 33.

Each of the carriages is encompassed by a rubber band 349, the lower end of which is fixed in any suitable manner in the baseboard to draw them down when released.

The crossbar 33 is provided with an extension 35, which projects into the path of a lateral arm 36, fixed on the hinged top board 37 of the bellows 38, so as to raise this top board and inflate the bellows when the carriage 33 is raised.

39 39 represent the reed-tubes of the bellows, and 40 a weight fixed on the top board, so that when the carriage is released it will instantly descend under the influence of its rubber band, while the bellows closes much more slowly, thereby prolonging the notes or musical sounds represented by the reeds.

41 represents a longitudinal rail extending across the top of the cabinet and which forms a support for the boat 14: to travel on. A rubber band 42 is fixed at one end to the stern of said boat, and its other end is fixed to a staple in the end wall of the case. A flexible cord 43 is also fixed at one end of said boat, and its other end passes over a guide-pulley 44 and is fixed to the arm 36 on the bellowstop. The pulley 44: is fixed on a shaft 45, journaled in the rail 41, and the rear end of this shaft is provided with a crank-pin 46,

which extends through the lower looped end of a vertical lever 47, fulcrumed on a fixed pivot l8, and which is laterally oscillated by the rotation of the guide-pulley. An American flag 13 is fixed to the upper end of said lever 47 and which is waved to and fro by the oscillation of the lever.

The operation of the device is as follows: All of the carriages are raised and locked in this position by their respective supportinglevers. This of course raises the verticallymovable scene-panels S, 9, and 10, the carriage at the same time lifting the top board of the bellows, and by slacking up on the cord 4-3 allows the rubber band 42 to draw the boat lat across the scene behind the panel 10. A series of percussion. caps is now inserted through the port-holes and rest upon the anvil-strips 31, immediately beneath the carriages. The target is now ready for use.

On a small scale, when constructed as a toy for children, marbles may be used as the proj ectiles; but when constructed on a more elaborate scale, for shooting-galleries and the like, of course the bullets used in the cartridges of the guns will then be the projectiles discharged at the target.

The bulls-eye disks 3 and 5 are the first objective points, and when either one of these is struck its respective carriage falls, carry ing down with it its appropriate panel and at the same time exploding the cap on the anvil, thereby producing a report and a flash, which appears at the port-hole beneath the target which has been struck. The same effect takes place when the remaining one of the two disks 3 and 5 is struck, and when the central disk 4 is struck a like effect is produced, with this addition: The arm 35 on the central carriage 33 is carried from beneath the arm 36 on the top board 37 of the bellows, thus permitting the weight 40 to press the top board down and sound the notes, while at the same time the cord -13, which is attached to the bellows-arm 36, draws the boat ll across the scene and in doing so rotates the pulley 4:4, which oscillates the flag, as hereinbefore described.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination with the carriage 33 provided with the arm 35 of the sound-bellows, the arm 36 fixed to said bellows and extending into the path of the arm on said car riage the boat 1st and the flag 13 operatively connected thereto so as to be simultaneously operated by the movement of said bellows, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a panoramic target, the anvil 30, the vertical lever 20 and the bulls-eye disk 3 ear-= ried by the lower end of said lever, the carriage 28 adapted to travel to and from said anvil and in the path of the upper end of said lever 20 and a leaf-spring 24: adapted to hold said lever in the path of said carriage substantially as shown and described.

In a panoramic target, the fixed anvil 30, the vertically-traveling carriage 28 the lever 20 mounted parallel to the path of said carriage and formed at its upper end with an angular shoulder 25 to engage said carriage, the bulls-eye disk 3 fixed to the lowerlend of said lever 20, and the panel 8 carried by said carriage substantially as shown and described.

4:. In a panoramic target, the fixed panel 12,

the movable panel 8, the carriage 28, the crossbar 32 connecting said movable panel and carriage, the anvil 30 fixed in the path of said carriage, the lever 20 adapted to support said panel 8 in position to, conceal the panel 12, and the bulls-eye disk 3, carried by the lower end of said lever substantially as shown and described. 7

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES DIOKENSON.

Witnesses:

H. J. ENNIS, A. B. 'J. FARRAR. 

